Inspirational Quotes from The Man Who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe
Emerson instructed us to “Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your reading have been to you like the blast of truimpth out of Shakespeare, Seneca, Moses, John and Paul.”
Following Emerson’s guidance, I offer some of my favorite blasts of triumph. These quotes I draw from The Man Who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe by Glenn Clark.
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You may command nature to the extent only in which you are willing to obey her.
~ Walter Russell quotes from The Man Who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe
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The electric energy which motivates us is not within our bodies at all. It is a part of the universal supply which flows through us from the Universal Source with an intensity set by our desires and our will.
~ Walter Russell quotes from The Man Who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe
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They know how to work without waste of energy. In order to get the best that is within themselves, they learn to eliminate from their thoughts and actions everything which subtracts from their purposes.
~ Walter Russell quotes from The Man Who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe
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Joy and happiness are the indicators of balance in a human machine…An inner joyousness, amounting to ecstasy, is the normal condition of the genius mind. Any lack of that joyousness develops body-destroying toxins. That inner ecstasy of the mind is the secret fountain of perpetual youth and strength in any man. He who finds it finds omnipotence and omniscience.
~ Walter Russell quotes from The Man Who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe
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He claims he has never known fatigue while obeying the law, but when he does break it he feels a sense of guilt in discovering the slightest evidence of fatigue which tells him that he has broken it.
~ Walter Russell quotes from The Man Who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe
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I believe that mediocrity is self-inflicted and that genius is self-bestowed.
~ Walter Russell quotes from The Man Who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe
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There was a tremendous modesty in the man as he spoke, a quietness and dignity. There was a simplicity and honesty and unselfconsciousness, and a tremendous peace.
~ Walter Russell quotes from The Man Who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe
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I believe sincerely that every man has consummate genius within him.
~ Walter Russell quotes from The Man Who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe
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Every successful man or great genius has three particular qualities in common. The most conspicuous of these is that they all produce a prodigious amount of work. The second is that they never know fatigue. And the third is that their minds grow more brilliant as they grow older, instead of less brilliant. Great men’s lives begin at forty, where the mediocre man’s life ends. The genius remains an ever-flowing fountain of creative achievement until the very last breath he draws.
~ Walter Russell quotes from The Man Who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe
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The thinking of creative and successful men is never exerted in any direction other than that intended. That is why great men produce such a prodigious amount of work, seemingly without effort and without fatigue. The amount of work such men leave to posterity is amazing.
~ Walter Russell quotes from The Man Who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe
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Down deep in his heart he knew that we all have the same promise of the unlimited help of the Universal Intelligence that guides all things. If we want it, we only have to plug into it with the master keys of desire and trust.
~ Walter Russell quotes from The Man Who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe
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When one trusts this inner universal power, it automatically draws forth the trust of the people one deals with.
~ Walter Russell quotes from The Man Who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe
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I have absolute faith that anything can come to one who trusts to the unlimited help of the Universal Intelligence that is within, so long as one works within the law, always gives more to others than they expect, and does it cheerfully and courteously.
~ Walter Russell quotes from The Man Who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe
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I never let the thought of failure enter my mind. My knowledge of my unity with the Universal One and the fact that I must do this thing, and the inspired belief I should do it as a demonstration of my belief in man’s unlimited power, made me ignore the difficulties that lay in the way.
~ Walter Russell quotes from The Man Who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe
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Mr. Russell is a great believer in versatility in all creative work. In any physical work he believes one can work many hours at a time, but in mental, creative work he believes one can do his best only for two hours at a time on any one subject, but he can work another two hours on another subject with equal freshness. He therefore sometimes works two hours a day on each of five different creations, “and in that way can live five lives at a time.
~ Walter Russell quotes from The Man Who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe
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Every man should be master of anything he does and should do it in a masterly manner, with love, no matter what it is, whether hard physical work, menial or boring work, or inspirational work.
~ Walter Russell quotes from The Man Who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe
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There should be no distasteful tasks in one’s life. If you just hate to do a thing, that hatred for it develops body-destructive toxins, and you become fatigued very soon.
~ Walter Russell quotes from The Man Who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe
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You must love anything you must do. Do it not only cheerfully, but also lovingly and the very best way you know how. That love of the work which you must do anyhow will vitalize your body and keep you from fatigue.
~ Walter Russell quotes from The Man Who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe
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A menial task which must be mine, that shall I glorify and make an art of it.
~ Walter Russell quotes from The Man Who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe
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I do not recognize these as defeats. They are but interesting experiences of life. They are valuable stepping stones to success.
~ Walter Russell quotes from The Man Who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe
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How can one call that a defeat? There is no such thing.
~ Walter Russell quotes from The Man Who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe
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I will see beauty and goodness in all things. From all that is unlovely shall my vision be immune.
~ Walter Russell quotes from The Man Who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe
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To get back to the real substance of all things, you must get back into the thought world. Until one knows that the thought-energy is the cause of which is back of all things, and the product only the effect, then he is tied to the effect and is limited by it.
~ Walter Russell quotes from The Man Who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe
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Your body is merely a machine made to express the thoughts that flow through you and nothing more. It is but an instrument for you to express your imagings just as a piano is an instrument for a musician to express his imagings. Just as the piano is not the musician, so, likewise, your body is not you.
~ Walter Russell quotes from The Man Who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe
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How does one chip off the marble that doesn’t belong? … That comes about through five things: humility, reverence, inspiration, deep purpose, and joy. No great man has ever wise-cracked his way to greatness. Until one learns to lose one’s self he cannot find himself. No one can multiply himself by himself. He must first divide himself and give himself to the service of all, thus placing himself within all others through acts of thoughtfulness and service.
~ Walter Russell quotes from The Man Who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe
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The personal ego must be suppressed and replaced with the ‘universal ego.’
~ Walter Russell quotes from The Man Who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe
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When I arrived at the point where I received public acclaim, I felt the most lowly, because I knew within myself that I had but begun to tap my inner resources.
~ Walter Russell quotes from The Man Who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe
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I learned to cross the threshold of my studio with reverence, as though I were entering a shrine set apart for me to become co-creator with the Universal Thinker of all things.
~ Walter Russell quotes from The Man Who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe
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Inspiration comes only to those who seek it with humility toward their own achievements and reverence toward the achievements of God.
~ Walter Russell quotes from The Man Who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe
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The universe gives to those who ask without favor. The electric plug which connects you is desire.
~ Walter Russell quotes from The Man Who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe
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Ask and you shall receive. You must, yourself, do the asking…Mediocrity is self-inflicted. Genius is self-bestowed.
~ Walter Russell quotes from The Man Who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe
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The only way you can find it is through being alone with your thoughts at sufficiently long intervals to give that inner voice within you a chance to cry out in distinguishable language for you. ‘Here I am within you.’ That is the silent voice, the voice of nature, which speaks to everyone who will listen.
~ Walter Russell quotes from The Man Who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe
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Lock yourself up in your room or go out in the woods where you an be alone. When you are alone the universe talks to you in flashes of inspiration.
~ Walter Russell quotes from The Man Who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe
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My today is what I will to make it. I will to make it perfect…
~ Walter Russell quotes from The Man Who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe
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So that I may meet the day with the knowledge to build the day I will look into my soul while it still dawn, before the morning breaketh…
~ Walter Russell quotes from The Man Who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe
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I will keep my body charged with energy for fulfillment of my purpose, in accord with that which is commanded of me…
~ Walter Russell quotes from The Man Who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe
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I have no limitations. Unlimited power is mine within that which is universal.
~ Walter Russell quotes from The Man Who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe
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I will do today that which is of today and pay no heed to the tomorrow; nor waste regrets on that which was yesterday.
~ Walter Russell quotes from The Man Who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe
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My day shall be filled to overflowing, yet shall I not haste the day; nor shall I waste the day.
~ Walter Russell quotes from The Man Who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe
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Those things that I must do I shall desire to do.
~ Walter Russell quotes from The Man Who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe
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Courtesy will be in my heart to give to all.
~ Walter Russell quotes from The Man Who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe
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My joy will be in serving.
~ Walter Russell quotes from The Man Who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe
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My power will be in thinking true.
~ Walter Russell quotes from The Man Who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe
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My power will be in humility.
~ Walter Russell quotes from The Man Who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe
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The taint of arrogance will I not know…
~ Walter Russell quotes from The Man Who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe
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Force I will meet with gentleness; impatience with patience.
~ Walter Russell quotes from The Man Who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe
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I believe that every man can multiply his own ability by almost constant wordless realization of his unity with his Source. I have, myself, made that feeling so much a part of me that I actually feel myself to be an extension of the Source; that my works are not my own, but interpretations of this Source.
~ Walter Russell quotes from The Man Who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe
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I believe that such constant realization ennobles one automatically. One’s stature is greater, one’s step more elastic, one’s aura more powerful; and it makes other people see that Light in one’s eyes which attracts people to him who has it.
~ Walter Russell quotes from The Man Who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe
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I believe that there is but One Thinker in the universe; that my thinking is His thinking, and that every man’s thinking is an extension, through God, of every other man’s thinking. I therefore think that the greater the exaltation and ecstasy of my thinking, the greater the standards of all man’s thinking will be. Each man is thus empowered to uplift all men as each drop of water uplifts the entire ocean.
~ Walter Russell quotes from The Man Who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe
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You have to gather your energy together…conserving it and insulating it from dissipation in every direction other than that of your purpose.
~ Walter Russell quotes from The Man Who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe
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There is no use for energy of any kind whatsoever unless there is a plan back of it.
~ Walter Russell quotes from The Man Who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe
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You can become a great creator or a little one as the intensity of your desire is little or great.
~ Walter Russell quotes from The Man Who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe
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There are no limitations set by this electric universe upon any man’s multiplication power. Each man sets his own limitations in accordance with his desires. He be a thin wire which gathers little energy and carries a weak current, or he may be a heavy one. That is true of all energy borrowed from the universe by all of us. It is there in unlimited quantities, but the gauge of the kind of wire each of us is set by ourselves.
~ Walter Russell quotes from The Man Who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe
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By ecstasy I mean inner joyousness, and by inner joyousness I mean those inspirational fires which burn within the consciousness of great geniuses, fires which give to them an inconquerable vitality of spirit which breaks down all barriers as wheat bends before the wind.
~ Walter Russell quotes from The Man Who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe
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He who cultivates that quiet, unobtrusive ecstasy of inner joyousness can scale any heights and be a leader in his field, no matter what that field is.
~ Walter Russell quotes from The Man Who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe
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There is no violent surface indication of the ecstasy which great thinkers alone enjoy. There is nothing dramatic about it, but there is some subtle light in the eye of the inspired one, or some even more subtle quiet emanation which surrounds the inspired thinker, which tells you that you are in the presence of one who has bridged the gap which separates the mundane world from the world of spirit.
~ Walter Russell quotes from The Man Who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe
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The Life Triumphant is that which places what a man gives to the world in creative expression far ahead of that which he takes from it of the creations of others.
~ Walter Russell quotes from The Man Who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe
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